OHDSI Digest – March 26th, 2018

OHDSI MEETINGS THIS WEEK
OHDSI Community Call – Tuesday at 12pm ET (5pm CET)
https://meetings.webex.com/collabs/#/meetings/detail?uuid=M59X2V1U61WC9ASID2Z5N3UT95-D1JL&rnd=811649.98682213
US TOLL: +1-415-655-0001
Meeting Number: 199 982 907

Population-Level Estimation (Western hemisphere) workgroup meeting – Thursday at 12pm ET (5pm CET)
https://meetings.webex.com/collabs/#/meetings/detail?uuid=M3T9BZV9RSB6YNDM8WDDZMI19D-D1JL&rnd=229240.54296

Hadoop WG meeting – Friday at 11am ET (4pm CET)
https://meet.lync.com/quintiles-quintilesims/mui.vanzandt/R8V4N3S9
Call in Number: 1-646-838-2458
Attendee access code: 75630528

GIS working group meeting – Monday (March 19th) at 10am ET
https://tufts.webex.com/mw3200/mywebex/default.do?service=1&siteurl=tufts&nomenu=true&main_url=%2Fmc3200%2Fe.do%3Fsiteurl%3Dtufts%26AT%3DMI%26EventID%3D562301137%26UID%3D528546812%26Host%3DQUhTSwAAAAT_EHuT3Ok-zHVhY1-kVGh78TH62dPsFk0x99qz1E9039sh_Eiepw8CoZeIF2SfnopQ8oAZaLN9PkzIZovRf2kV0%26FrameSet%3D2%26MTID%3Dm243d8e9a9c6c2d42d5182aeb5d30efdb
Meeting Number: 735 317 239
Password: gaia

ANNOUNCEMENTS
First European Symposium a huge success! Check it out here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ohdsi-europe-symposium-2018-big-success-peter-rijnbeek/
And join tomorrow’s OHDSI call to hear all about the event

2018 OHDSI F2F: Selected F2F participants were notified on Friday, March, 23rd. If you signed up to attend but did not receive confirmation of your attendance place email beaton@ohdsi.org

2018 OHDSI Symposium – Collaborator showcase
Back by popular demand, the collaborator showcase will be part of the 2018 OHDSI Symposium, set to take place on September 18th at the Bethesda North Marriott! Once again we’ll be inviting collaborators to participate in the collaborator showcase by submitting abstracts to give poster presentations, software demonstrations or oral presentations. More details coming soon!

OHDSI China Hack-a-thon – SAVE THE DATE Mark your calendars! The OHDSI China Hack-a-thon is officially set to take place on May 18th – 20th in Shanghai. More details to be posted soon.

COMMUNITY PUBLICATIONS
Generation of Web pages for Public Scientific Databases Using Schema.org
https://2018.eswc-conferences.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/ESWC2018_paper_92.pdf

Empirical confidence interval calibration for population-level effect estimation studies in observational healthcare data
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/03/08/1708282114

Inferring pregnancy episodes and outcomes within a network of observational databases.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29389968

Sequence symmetry analysis in pharmacovigilance and pharmacoepidemiologic studies.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28698923

Building a semantic web-based metadata repository for facilitating detailed clinical modeling in cancer genome studies.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28583204